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T.C. Sottek

T.C. Sottek

Executive Editor

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    PS VR2, unboxed.

    Let Sean’s calming voice guide you through this unpackaging and setup experience. Ahhh.

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    Green light.

    Welcome to another Friday on the internet. If you’re about to go off-roading this weekend, definitely don’t do it in the new GMC Hummer EV. Here are some alternate headlines we discussed in the newsroom that almost made it onto the review:

    - The GMC Hummer EV is terrible, on and off the road
    - The GMC Hummer EV is American freedom at its worst
    - GMC Hummer EV review: WTF

    Ouch!

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    Another big day for giant printouts of the internet in Congress.

    During today’s circus show featuring former Twitter execs and Hunter Biden’s laptop, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held up this sign. I wouldn’t personally brag about being banned from Twitter for being a horrible troll, but then, I wasn’t elected by Georgia’s 14th district.

    MTG holds up a giant foamboard printout of her permanent Twitter suspension.
    MTG holds up a giant foamboard printout of her permanent Twitter suspension.
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    Do you like Wordle? Prepare to hate Wordle.

    Flappy Birdle is a sadistic experiment in word games. You will not survive. You will fail. Over and over again. It’s terrible. Good luck.

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    Google just 360 noscoped Microsoft.

    Microsoft just announced a surprise event for tomorrow, and we expect AI to be a big part of it. But not before Google went up with its own announcement about a ChatGPT competitor.

    The AI war is red hot. Here we go.

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    What lies in the heart of a balloon? Who can say.

    The Pentagon says the high-altitude balloon currently flying over the US is spying on us. China says it’s just a weather balloon.

    What say you, wayward balloon?

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    Before email you had to develop computers by taking Polaroids and delivering them on a motorcycle to your colleagues.

    At least, that’s how Apple designer Bill Atkinson did things when he made the Lisa.

    Atkinson shared his binder of Lisa development Polaroids with the Computer History Museum, and we had the pleasure of selecting some of our favorites to publish on The Verge:

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    I am posting this to The Verge Dot Com from my phone on the NYC subway...

    because literally nobody works like this. Get real, folks.

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    Here’s a free billion-dollar idea for Microsoft:

    Change Bing’s name to “Ask GPT.” (Sorry, Ask Jeeves.)